Tackling the Opioid Crisis: Using Electronic Health Records to Help with Monitoring Patients with Chronic Pain - Enduring Material Post-test and Evaluation

Post-test and Evaluation

Requiring them to fill out redundant information to make it so difficult to prescribe that they don’t and refer the patient to a specialist

Allowing the provider to track all of the items necessary to ensure appropriate monitoring and care for patients with minimal effort

Allowing the provider to simply refill medications if a patient has been on it without issues and not require a review

Keeping opioid prescribing separate from other prescribing in order to emphasize how important it is

Require prescribers to go through unnecessary steps prior to writing a prescription for a controlled substance in order to persuade them not to

Give prescribers a sense of control by letting them see what medications patients are getting from other doctors

Provide insight into potentially dangerous medication combinations or quantities prior to prescribing an additional medication

Allow prescribers to print the results and show it to patients when they refuse to fill another prescription

Everyone effective January 1st

Those prescribers who already have EMRs in their offices

The more "techy" prescribers in the state

Those providers in the largest counties on Jan 1st; all other counties on July 1st, unless approved via waiver prior